2010/3/29 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
- is there a manual, web site or something where comparison of LaTeX/ConTeXt packages/modules would be done?
I'm interested how to include a part of a text file and how to insert some pages of another .pdf file.
Normally I was using the fancyvrb (\VerbatimInput) + option "firstline=..." and "lastline=..." respectively
A lot of ConTeXt experts do not know what LaTeX packages do. You'll usually get a faster response by describing the desired functionality rather than option name from LaTeX. It would seem like the option you need is there, but it doesn't seem to work. There are some examples is ConTeXt source: \setuptyping[file][numbering=file] \starttext \typefile[start=2,nlines=3]{zapf} \typefile[start=3,step=2]{zapf} \stoptext But they neither work properly in mkii nor in mkiv (a different bug in each).
and pdfpages (\includepdf} + "pages=..." LaTeX packages; what's the equivalent for them in ConTeXt?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document
Is there a place where to study module/package "similarities"/"equivalences"?
Apart for the page mentioned by Wolfgang, probably not. Usually people ask on the list if some functonality is missing. Many packages are not needed since the same functionality is offered by ConTeXt core. Some external modules offer very special functionality (like lilypond, gnuplot, vim, games, r ...), some offer simplified approach to methods that are otherwise doable with more effort (simplefonts, simpleslides, ...), some offer support for non-standard fonts, ... Mojca